Projects

Inch Cape

Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm, once complete, will generate enough green electricity to power the equivalent of more half the homes in Scotland and at 1.1 gigawatt (GW) will be one of Scotland’s largest offshore wind farms.

Located 15 kilometres from the Angus coast, the project is on a site covering 150 square kilometres and will feature 72 wind turbines and a single offshore substation. The power it generates will be transported via two 85 kilometre export cables to a new substation being built on the brownfield site of the former coal-fired Cockenzie Power Station on the East Lothian coast. From here it will enter the national transmission network at an existing connection point.

Inch Cape was first considered in 2008 after the site was secured in The Crown Estate’s third leasing round auction. Since that time, the wind farm ownership has changed along with its design, which has evolved to take advantage of new technologies and innovations as the wider offshore wind industry has also developed.

Since its original consent was received in 2014, these changes included an updated wind farm design which reduced the number of turbines 72, and an increase in generation capacity enabling adoption of the latest technology within existing consent requirements. The project will use 15MW Vestas turbines, sitting on a mix of jacket and monopile turbines which will be some of the deepest ever installed. At the heart of the wind farm will be a Siemens Energy Offshore Transmission Module on a 68m deep jacket foundation, fabricated at Smulders’ yard in Wallsend.

The project reached financial close in January 2025 and is now in its offshore construction phase, with marshalling ports in Leith and Dundee and construction being operated out of Montrose. It is due to be completed in 2027.

Inch Cape is owned by Inch Cape Offshore Limited (ICOL) – an equal joint venture between ESB and Red Rock Renewables – and you can find out more on the project website and you can also keep up to date on LinkedIn.